The United Kingdom is shifting its stance on the disputed Western Sahara, backing Morocco's plan to offer its people limited ...

Indian peacekeepers Brig. Gen. Amitabh Jha & Hav. Sanjay Singh receive posthumous Dag Hammarskjold Medals at solemn UN ...

Smith, Brown and Wilson are the three most common surnames in Scotland, according to a new report. The General Register Office for Scotland survey said that more than one in every eight last names ...

Tensions flared last year when France shifted its longstanding position and backed Morocco's plan for sovereignty over disputed Western Sahara. Algeria views the Morocco-controlled territory as Africa ...

Low-cost airlines have opened routes linking Madrid and Paris to Dakhla in Western Sahara, a former Spanish colony largely controlled by Morocco but claimed for decades by the Algeria-backed ...

The Saharawi Youth Union, advocating for the independence of Western Sahara, together with the International Service for Human Rights, urged the UN Human Rights Council on Monday to “take action” and ...

Since 1991, the United Nations has led a series of fruitless efforts to resolve the standoff over Western Sahara. A swath of desert about the size of the entire United Kingdom, Western Sahara is ...

French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to the disputed Western Sahara, a sign of French support for Moroccan sovereignty over the desert territory. The long-frozen conflict ...

Ambassador Mouloud Said, the representative of Western Sahara in Washington, disputed Morocco’s claims of sovereignty over the territory at a Harvard Law School event on Monday. At the Law ...

350,000 poor Moroccans marched into the Western Sahara carrying Moroccan flags and pictures of the King ... she has never had to wear a veil and has never had to be addressed by a man in order to ...

In October of this year, trade unionists, anti-capitalists and activists from around the world gathered in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, from the 19th to the 23rd to mark the ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron has told Morocco's parliament that he believes Western Sahara should be under Moroccan sovereignty, and has pledged to invest French money there. Western Sahara ...